Tug of War
part 3 final
"This isn't the time or place," Leonardo said, trying to draw Nobody and Karai's focus off of each other. He addressed a question to Nobody. "What happened to Hun?"
"He eluded me," Nobody said, turning his gaze on Leo. "Since there was no indication that he'd opened an outer door, I guessed that he had some sort of secret exit. I spent some time looking for it but found nothing."
"Perhaps if you hadn't been so concerned with Leonardo's activities, you could have done your job properly," Karai snapped, her voice dripping with venom.
"And perhaps if you hadn't been so intent on bedding Leo, you wouldn't have allowed Hun to interfere with your business," Nobody shot back. "Was your offer of a truce with the turtles a way to peacefully coexist, or an excuse to seduce their leader?"
Karai laughed, but it was without mirth. "You are one to talk, old man. Is it youth and inexperience that does it for you? Do you often troll for innocent young men, impressing them with your costume and antics in order to have sex with them?"
"Stop it." Leo's tone was sharp and drew their attention. "What are you two doing? I don't want this."
"Leo, you've helped her to get the information she came for," Nobody said. "Let me take you home."
"Home but with a side detour to your place first," Karai said, voice dripping with sarcasm.
"At least anywhere I'd take him he wouldn't have to worry about being stabbed in the back," Nobody retorted.
"We're all supposed to be on the same side," Leo told them. "There has been enough fighting."
"Oh, I don't know about that. I was enjoying the show."
The three of them had been so intent on each other that the sound of Hun's voice made them jump. Leo quickly drew his swords as he turned, hearing Karai do so as well.
Hun stood before them and Leo had a sudden sense of déjà vu. This was almost exactly the same scene as only a short time earlier. However, there was one key difference; along with members of the Purple Dragons gang, a contingent of Foot ninja had joined Hun.
"So, the disloyal and dishonorable have chosen sides," Karai practically spat. "You have done me a great favor by bringing them into the open. Now I will dispatch them in one stroke."
"You talk a good game," Hun replied. Karai's two aides appeared suddenly, taking up positions to either side of their mistress. Hun laughed. "The odds are still in our favor. Hand over that drive and maybe I'll kill you fast."
"Never." Karai tossed her head defiantly.
Turning his attention to Leo, Hun said, "Why don't you take it from her? Give it to me and switch allegiances. If all you're looking for is a good fuck, I can give you that, turtle. Whatever you prefer, dick or pussy, I can provide. I'll even let you ride my big, hard cock if that's what you're into. I guarantee I'm bigger than this costumed freak."
"You are disgusting," Nobody said.
Leo was barely listening to them. A shadowed form had shown itself briefly atop the maintenance shed behind Hun. That quick view had been for Leo's sake, letting him know that reinforcements had arrived.
"If I'm wrong, then why haven't you called the rest of your Justice Force for help?" Hun sneered. "You don't want them to know that you're panting over this turtle's ass."
Two of the Foot soldiers standing in the back row abruptly disappeared without a sound. A second later a Purple Dragon thug vanished from view. The moves had been executed with such precision that it was all Leo could do not to smile.
Wanting to give his brothers time to continue winnowing out the competition, Leo said, "Hun, even you have to know that a war between the Dragons and the Foot won't end well for anyone. There are more of the Foot clan who are loyal to Karai than there are of those who aren't. This is her legacy."
"Karai befouls the illustrious reputation achieved by the Shredder," one of the Foot hissed. "These turtle freaks were his greatest enemies."
Several more adversaries dropped from sight, their disappearances unnoticed by everyone but Leo.
"That is the problem with you fools," Karai responded haughtily. "You live in the past and are unable to see our future. No empire can be sustained by force alone."
"It won't matter to you after tonight because you'll be dead," Hun said. "The days where the Foot Clan and Purple Dragons are as one will live again, and this time, I'll be at the top."
"Enough talk!" Karai shouted. From behind her back she whipped out a manriki-gusari and threw one of the weighted ends directly at Hun.
It was clear he'd expected her to charge at him again and the weapon took him by surprise. The chain wrapped around his neck and Karai pulled on it as hard as she could.
There was a millisecond of panic in Hun's eyes when his air supply was cut off. His hands clutched at the chain that was choking him before he realized that there was a better way to counter.
Grabbing the chain, he yanked on it. Karai was no match for Hun's muscles and was pulled off of her feet.
Everyone had seemed frozen when Karai made her move, but with Hun's action the tableau broke. The Foot and Dragons surged forward.
Leonardo spun on his heels and sliced the chain apart just as Karai performed a quick front flip to regain her footing. Then Nobody shot past the pair to drive his fist into Hun's midsection.
It was the second time in only a few minutes that Hun was taken by surprise. No one went toe to toe with him in a fight, but Nobody's blow knocked some of the air out of him. Hun stumbled back with a grunt and then his expression melted into one of pure fury.
Coming at Nobody, Hun aimed a fist at the superhero's jaw, but missed when Nobody pulled his head back. Nobody countered with an uppercut that snapped Hun's teeth together.
With a growl, Hun lunged at Nobody, wrapping his arms around the man in an attempt to crush him. Nobody brought his elbow down on the back of Hun's neck, stinging a nerve there hard enough to force Hun to release him.
Nobody's attack on Hun turned Karai's attention to the Foot Lieutenant who had betrayed her. Their swords collided and when the traitor attempted to shove Karai off balance, she cut at his stomach with her tanto.
The man barely skipped back in time. The blade ripped into his shirt and sliced a thin line across his skin. Drawing his own short sword, he dove at his former mistress.
It was clear at the start of the fight that most of the combined Foot and Dragons forces were intent on killing Karai. When she and the Lieutenant clashed, Leo saw immediately that his primary function was to keep everyone else away from Karai.
Karai's two aides were across from Leo and they too were fighting to keep attackers off of their mistress. Slashing with his katanas, Leo drove off Foot and Dragons alike.
A loud whoop sounded behind the crowd just as three large green figures barreled into the battle.
Directly in front of Leo a Foot ninja dropped when the end of a nunchaku slammed into his head. Mikey grinned at his brother, his weapons whipping all around him at speeds too fast for the eye to follow.
"Trying to keep all the fun for yourself?" Mikey asked.
An attacker charged at Mikey from behind, but was tripped when a long wooden staff was thrust between his ankles. Donatello then struck the man's temple with the bō and knocked him out.
"Mikey was getting bored," Don quickly explained.
"So was I!" Raph shouted from nearby as he slugged a pair of Purple Dragons. "Now this is more like it!"
The odds turned quickly in their favor as the turtles flung themselves fully into the fight. Bodies dropped all around them, the lucky ones merely unconscious.
Without help from his cohorts, the Foot Lieutenant found himself quickly outmatched. A well-placed front snap kick dropped him on his ass and before he could rise, Karai stomped on his chest, driving the air from his lungs. Using the tip of her katana, she flicked his weapons from his hands and then placed the blade against his throat.
"Do you yield?" Karai asked him.
The traitor snarled at her. With a quick twist of her wrist, Karai sliced the mask from his face and then cut two X's into his cheeks before returning the blade to his throat.
"I yield!" the traitor cried out.
Remaining where she was, Karai looked over to where Hun and Nobody fought. Her aides and the turtles efficiently dispatched the remainder of their adversaries and then stood next to Karai to watch the fight as well.
Hun swung an overhand punch, but Nobody leaned to the side and caught the man's forearm, ducking under it while moving to the side and twisting the arm. With a grimace, Hun managed to wrench his arm free and then spun around to face Nobody.
"I'm gonna break you in two, you caped freak!" Hun shouted.
He threw a left-hand punch at Nobody which was blocked, and then tried for a right hook. Nobody grabbed his arm and yanked it down before driving his elbow into Hun's elbow joint. With a quick half-turn, he brought his elbow up into Hun's face.
Hun staggered backwards a few steps and then straightened to glare at Nobody. Stomping towards him, Hun tried for a jab, but Nobody ducked beneath the punch. Pivoting to keep Nobody in front of him, Hun's next punch grazed the superhero's shoulder.
Countering, Nobody delivered a hard right, connecting squarely with Hun's face. There was a loud crunch of breaking bone, a splatter of blood, and then Hun's eyes rolled back in his head and he slumped to the ground, out cold.
Breathing hard, Nobody stood over the man, fists still clenched. After a moment he looked around and saw that the rest of the fight was over too.
"Nice punch," Raph said with appreciation.
"You've won nothing," the Foot traitor proclaimed. "There are others who . . . ."
Karai shut him up with a well-placed kick to the head, which knocked him out. "When I am done with you, I will know everything."
"What are you going to do, Karai?" Leo asked.
"There are some things you do not want to know, Leonardo," Karai answered.
"I will be delivering Hun to the authorities," Nobody announced. He gave Karai a hard look as though expecting a protest, but she merely nodded at him.
"Good thing we showed up when we did," Raph said, staring pointedly at Leo.
Mikey's attention was on Nobody. "I want to know why you didn't call for help from the Turtle Titan. Leo's not an official member of the Justice Force, I am."
"This operation seemed to fall more in your brother's wheelhouse, Mike," Nobody told him.
Don rubbed at his chin, deep in thought. "The way I read this whole situation, Hun was hoping that his fake turtles would make Karai break her truce with us and pit us against the Foot Clan again. While we were fighting, he could raid the Foot's warehouses. With Karai's attention subdivided, the traitors in her organization could move against her.
"If we all saw through the trick, then Hun expected that Karai would come for him, placing her in the open and making her vulnerable to attack. Which is what happened here, except that as usual, he underestimated both Karai and us."
"He must have known that I had located his base of operations," Karai said.
"Hun expected Karai to come here, which is why there were so many of his men and the Foot traitors waiting," Nobody said. "I played into that by bringing this plot to Leonardo's attention."
"The only thing Hun didn't expect was to drag a member of the Justice Force into the situation," Don said.
"Wait." Leo turned to look at his brothers. "How did you know any of this? How did you know about the fake turtles? I only found out tonight from Nobody."
Raph jerked a thumb in Don's direction. "He activated your shell cell tracker and remotely turned the phone on so we could listen in. Mikey spotted ya' trying to sneak out of the lair without letting us know what was going on. After the millions of times you've lectured me about doing that same damn thing, we weren't just gonna sit by and wait to see if ya' came back in one piece."
Leo's brow ridges lifted. "You listened to . . . everything?"
"Everything," Mikey said with a smirk.
Slinging an arm over Leo's shoulders, Raph looked first at Nobody, then at Karai. "I can't say I blame either of ya' for wanting a piece of this fine turtle here, but he's spoken for."
"Cut it out," Leo said, frowning.
"Oh, hell no," Raph replied. "You're the diplomat in the family, not me. I speak plain. Leo's with us."
"By with us, he means that Leo's not the virgin you guys seem to think he is," Mikey said, shit eating grin firmly in place.
"Ah, I see," Karai said. "You prefer men, Leonardo."
Leo felt that it was time he set things straight. "Actually, I prefer my own kind."
A small smile pulled at Karai's lips. "That was not the message I was receiving earlier."
Mikey answered for his brother. "Hey, you can't blame a turtle for being curious. I don't. None of us ever said we couldn't play a little on the side."
"Just as long as whoever it is on the side understands the Leo will always come back to us," Don said.
"I trust that you can provide the authorities with proofs of Hun's illegal activities?" Nobody asked, directing his question to Karai.
"Of course." Karai then nodded to her aides, who scooped up the unconscious Foot Lieutenant and spirited him away. Her gaze returned to Leo. "I fully comprehend your brothers' protectiveness of you, Leonardo. It is admirable. Thank you all for your assistance. I will take my leave. Until we meet again."
With that, she followed her men and quickly vanished.
"Do you think that means she understood that we were telling her we all have sex?" Mikey asked of no one in particular. "That last line kind of sounded open ended."
"Who knows what goes on in her head," Raph said. "As far as I'm concerned, little Miss Foot still has Shredder's voice whispering crap to her."
"Fifty years from now you still won't trust her," Leo said.
Raph snorted. "Fifty years from now she'll be too old for me to worry about."
"At least she thanked us," Don said.
While they were talking, Nobody had trussed Hun's wrists together with thick zip ties. Grabbing a handful of the back of his shirt, Nobody lifted Hun partially off the ground.
"I'm taking him downstairs to await the police," Nobody said. "As always, it was good working with you, all of you. Leonardo, I hope that you did not misconstrue any of my previous words. Everything I said was in aid of keeping Karai away from you. I am in agreement with Raphael, the woman should not be fully trusted."
He didn't wait for a response. Turning, he dragged Hun towards the stairwell and a moment later they heard Hun's body thumping its way down the risers.
"I don't buy that for one minute," Raph said. "Do you?"
The question was directed at Leo, who shrugged. "It doesn't matter." In his mind though, he wondered the same thing.
"Right," Raph said, sounding suspicious. "Are ya' done saving Karai's leadership for the night?"
"I was saving us," Leo said, correcting him. "We're the ones who would have taken the blame for those thefts."
Mikey punched his arm lightly. "Whatever you say, Leo."
During the trip home Leo's brothers continued to tease him about the things they'd heard. When they reached the lair, Leo immediately started for his room, only to have his arm caught by Raph.
"Nope. This way," Raph said, tugging on Leo to change his direction.
With both Don and Mikey behind him, Leo had no chance to protest being taking into Raph's room. There a nest of futons had been spread over the floor.
Hands began stripping Leo. As his sheaths were removed, Leo protested, "I should clean my swords."
"Later," Raph told him, voice husky. He caught Leo's chin and tilted his head back before covering his brother's mouth with his own.
The kiss was filled with the passion that Raph brought to most things, pushing away thoughts of anything else. Don and Mikey finished removing the rest of Leo's things before rubbing their hands all over his body.
Raph slid one of his hands down Leo's plastron and then cupped his groin roughly. "This what Karai did? Did she make ya' hard?"
Leo could feel Raph's fire burning him, making his breathing shallow. Heart pumping wildly, Leo shoved Raph towards the bedding, hooking a foot behind his ankle to drop his brother.
Crawling over Raph, Leo glanced to the side to see that Don and Mikey's bodies were wound tightly together, their arousals evident as they kissed. Looking down, he saw the lascivious gleam in Raph's eyes and smiled.
"Not in the least," Leo told his brother. "Never the way you do."
"Prove it," Raph said, grabbing the back of Leo's head and pulling him down.
Hours later Leo lay in a deep sleep, fully sated and comfortable in his brothers' arms. Raph was dozing when he heard Mikey mutter something in his sleep, and then the sound of Don shushing him.
Glancing over, Raph's eyes met Don's. "Not sleepy?"
"I am," Don said. "I had a thought."
Raph rolled his eyes good naturedly. "Get it out then, so ya' can get some sleep."
"I was wondering what could have gotten into the humans," Don said. "Why did they all suddenly want Leo?"
"Who knows," Raph said. He yawned. "It must be that time of year."
End